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mircea_popescu: but the beating usg is taking online for the past half decade makes the beating it's been taking on the ground in any military engagement since ww2 look like a piss in the park.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're getting decimated alright, you're just not in a too good position to observe it i guess.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they couldn't even let the ips through, because that badly set up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, that was actually a rather lulzy forced humiliation.
mircea_popescu: and at the time at least they still thought "we" don't have the list
mircea_popescu: the reason they did is that some of the ips were actually traceable to various poorly protected shells.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fwiw, i've not yet published tons of reams of piles of stuff either.
mircea_popescu: the fact that the barnacles are barnacles does not speak much of the ship.
mircea_popescu: recall that one time when iu had to force "wikileaks" to publish documents ?
mircea_popescu: well, everything you saw the guardian publish, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: this is "my girlfriend was a virgin when i met her because her previous boyfriend had a shitty job"
mircea_popescu: but looky : the fact that some later schmuck had better/different materials
mircea_popescu: the problem with this theory is that it's thoroughly based on itself.
mircea_popescu: it can only be plausible if simultaneously a) one's never had any sort of interaction wit hthe usg and b) one's stewed for years / millions of words' worth in some armchair generalship club.
mircea_popescu: so, t1 = snowden 2 ran off with some papers ; t2 = usg figurdd it out ; t3 = snowden 1 is created for purpose of defense ; t4 = greenwald & co start promoting snowden 1 ; t5 = snowden 2 finally makes public contact ; t6 = greenwald & co claim contact ; t7->to this present day
mircea_popescu: not that what you propose doesn't make for a better story, but still.
mircea_popescu: the problem is not that i don't understand what you're saying. the problem is i don't see what you're basing it on.
mircea_popescu: the guy that kept waking up and dreaming stuff with the bush and the policeman ?
mircea_popescu: wait, kalughin ?! the guy who was eventually bent in two, tied together and thrown out with the trash ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, it was a carnegie, and rockefeller, and so on and so on thing
mircea_popescu: still, you know - that old question of "so you want the mike - what are you going to say into it ?"
mircea_popescu: sort of a reversed lenin equation. "sturdy but dumb" + "aluminum siding salesmen" = $$$
mircea_popescu: edison definitely instrumental in all of this, but there's a good half dozen names involved.
mircea_popescu: and for the first time making it worth something projectively. prior to that, it was just measured by the world, as anything. exported to china for its silver weight etc.
mircea_popescu: also, anyone who thinks "america has brought porn" is a fucktard of prime order.
mircea_popescu: 1.3k cc engine "trucks" that can't climb a 3% incline.
mircea_popescu: next you knew, bmw and mercedes were falling over each othert toi make "suv"s
mircea_popescu: they came up with thje "let's put a lawnmower engine in ten cubic meters of injected plastic" thing all on their own
mircea_popescu: a facility which is both why so very few women do anything notable and at the same time why stuff like language even maintains any sort of continuity over time.
mircea_popescu: the avatars of "common sense" as held by the mentally stunted adult roman woman of "respectable extraction" would find exact equivalents in the heads of your new york rachel fucktard today, or in the heads of british imbecile a century ago, or wherever else. and it'd take them all of half an hour to start nodding approvingly at each other
mircea_popescu: <phf> the "west" ascii is talking about, is the place that only existed on the 80s vhs tapes. << word srsly.
mircea_popescu: gotta love tardstalk. almost as good as washington post, in that it's not merely written by retards,
mircea_popescu: They need to make the next version use a better database system that is not linearly.
mircea_popescu: "wow ok. Sounds like nobody thought it would get this big.
mircea_popescu: "The innovation machine is running at full speed in the wrong direction." << heh. yes, keep copies of your old browsers, for the new ones will be less and less useful.
mircea_popescu: sure. problem still exists irrespective of how you handle it.
mircea_popescu: it's cute the first 300 times. after which it starts to occur that "why am i hanging in a room where a 40 yo woman that STILL has dumb virgin perisexual issues derps on ?"
mircea_popescu: but hey, maybe she runs into princess donna one day, does one of those public humiliation things and comes to humanity.
mircea_popescu: trinque she'd be ok, except she has this by now very pointedly obvious sex fright issue which kind-of ruins her entire shtick by enveloping it in a very strong stale loser odor.
mircea_popescu: o wait - they didn't! clearly. which is why holocaust was a lie tututuuu!
mircea_popescu: i had nfi idea bad postcards from the 1920s "deeply offend jews". how did they make it through the early 1900s if this is the case is anyone's guess.